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Gubernatorial Candidate Larry Sharpe (L) raised more than $100,000 before the first reporting deadline of the 2018 campaign, becoming the first Libertarian Gubernatorial Candidate to break six figures for the first filing.

With an average donation amount of just over $100, the grassroots campaign is fueled by small donors.

Sharpe’s momentum continues to build as he travels across New York State to visit communities and hear the concerns of citizens from New Rochelle to Plattsburgh and Buffalo.

A guy looked at my Corvette the other day and said,
“I wonder how many people could have been fed with the money you paid for that car?”.

I replied, “I am not sure.”

However,
it fed a lot of families who worked on the factory assembly lines who built it,
it fed the people who harvested the rubber trees in Africa and Asia,
it fed the people who transported the trees by truck, train and boat
to the factories to make the tires,
it fed the people who invented, designed, and built the computers and components that went into it,
it fed the people in the copper mine who mined the copper for the wires,
it fed the people who hauled it from the plant to the dealer
and fed the people working at the dealership and their families.

BUT… I have to admit, I guess I really don’t know how many people it fed.

This illustrates how capitalism works – it lifts people out of poverty and enriches our lives. Under capitalism when you buy something, you put money in people’s pockets and give them dignity for their skills.

Under socialism, when you give someone something for nothing, you rob them of their dignity and self worth.

Everyone wants to have a safe, happy, holiday this Independence Day. And they should. Independence Day is the one day that we can celebrate our country taking its own future in its hands, by telling the British King that we were unhappy with being treated as second class citizens, and not given the rights that other English subjects were due.

But if we surrender our rights “which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them” that we thought were ensured by the Constitution that we ourselves wrote, how free are we? Or are we simply just under another king, in a different guise?

One of the complaints that we had of the British King was, “He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance”. If you can be searched anytime, anywhere, for no cause, and watched everywhere you go, how is that freedom?